"How will you deal with him?" Belses asked. Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out — truss him up — whatever the Almighty… - John Buchan

I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.

He knew nothing accurately about any subject in the world, but he could clothe his ignorance in pontifical garments and give his confusion the accents of authority. He had a remarkable flair for discerning and elaborating the tiny quantum of popular knowledge on any matter.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.